Book Recommendations by Genre (by last year s Fourth Grade Classes) Autobiography/Biography The Kobe Bryant Story Free At Last Who Was Mark Twain? Who Is? Series *Many of the books below may be part of the Who Was? Series. Abraham Lincoln I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust Helen Keller Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa Parks George Washington Thomas Edison Nelson Mandela Leonardo da Vinci Annie Oakley Satchel Paige Barry Sanders Jackie Robinson The Greatest Basketball Players of All Time Gandhi Diary of Anne Frank Barak Obama Amelia Earhart Harry Houdini Electric Ben Informational Text Washington, D.C : From Seas to Shining Sea We are the Ship What was? (Series) What was The March on Washington? What was the Underground Railroad? What was the Boston Tea Party? National Geographic Kids: Myths Busted Ohio The Story of the Cleveland Browns 100 Most Feared Creatures World Series Classics Zoobooks Series The Big Book of Why Cottonmouth The Biggest and Best Flag That Ever Flew The Revolutionary War Sinkholes Boa Constrictor The Human Body Muscles Top Ten of Everything in Sports Beasts of the East/Wonders of the West Civil War Everything Sharks Dear Toni Because of Anya Dork Diaries The Just Grace Series Wringer Swindle (Part of a Series) Wonder Pie House of a Million Pets Ginger Pie Travel Team Roxie and the Hooligans Ungifted The One and Only Ivan Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series Homework Machine Flush Scat Hoot Chomp Charlie Joe Jackson Series Gabby Lost and Found The Lemonade War Crush Gary Paulsen Junie B. Series Clementine Series
Autobiography/Biography Pocahontas Walt Disney If a Bus Could Talk Sitting Bull Gabby Douglass: Going for the Gold Who Were the Beatles? Who Was Thomas Alva Edison Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal Informational Text A School Like Mine The Hindenburg Special Effects 100 Most Feared Creatures on the Planet Jump Into Science: Sand National Geographic Kids Almanac 100 People Who Made History Weird But True Series Bigfoot Yeti How Children Lived Hurricanes Lightening Storms 8000 Awesome Things You Should Know National Geographic: Dog Finds Lost Dophins National Geographic: Ape Escapes My Weird Writing Tips Ivy and Bean Series Marty McGuire Series Big Nate Series Almost Home The Music of the Dolphins Out of My Mind Every Soul a Star (Difficult) The Mother Daughter Book Club (Series) Fourth Grade Rats Double Fudge The Secret Language of Girls Finally Touchdown for Teddy Penelope Crump Half a Chance How to Steal a Dog Beauty and the Beast Turtle in Paradise (Also HF) One for the Murphys My Life as a Stunt Boy A Whole Lot of Lucky Peace Love and Cupcakes: The Cupcake Club My Best Frenemy Shades of Truth Lexie The Kind of Friends We Used to Be
Poetry Love That Dog Hate the Cat Hoop Kings Where the Sidewalk Ends The Random House Book of Poetry Doodle Dandies: Poems that Take Shape Falling Up The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems My Dog Does My Homework Noisy Poems Graphic Novel Into the Volcano Smile Amulet Series Bone Series Babysitter s Club Series Lightening Thief Series Redwall Series Dragonbreath Series Zita the Spacegirl Series Rapunzel s Revenge Calamity Jack Cardboard Squish Chickenhare Astronaut Academy Series Bird and Squirrel Series Indigo Blue The Report Card Last Holiday Concert Counting by Sevens My Life as a Book Where the Red Fern Grows The True Gift Ginger Pie Freckle Juice Ellie McDoodle I Funny Series The Second Life of Abigail Walker A Dog Called Homeless Winter According to Humphrey Flyaway by Kristin Hannah The Pet War Captain Nobody
Fantasy/Science Fiction Ninth Ward Percy Jackson Series Eye of the Storm Kate Messner Imaginary Veterinary Series The Creature in My Closet Series Timmy Failure Series Killer Species Series The Tail of Emily Windsnap Pi in the Sky Sister s Grimm Series Wake Up Missing The Missing Series Game Changer Haddix Jedi Academy Series Spirit Animals Series Cheryl the Christmas Tree Fairy Kane Chronicles Ender s Game Series The Unwanteds City of Ember Series Land of Stories Rebel Spirits Spiderwick Chronicles The Strange Case of Origami Yoda Series Bad Unicorn Series Wings of Fire Series Artemis Fowl Series Matilda Narnia Series Warriors Series Mystery/Horror Theodore Boone Series of Unfortunate Events Double Identity The Wolf Princess Capture the Flag (Series) The Light on Hogback Hill A to Z Mysteries Scary Stories The Zack Files (Series) Encyclopedia Brown Series Chasing Vermeer Liar and Spy Creepover Series Doll Bones Mysterious Benedict s Society Room One Andrew Clements Nancy Drew The Haunted Museum Series Eleven Nightmare Room Series Mean Ghouls Zombie Dog The Dark Stairs Deadtime Stories The Fourth Stall (Series) Newbery/Other Award Flora and Ulysses The Graveyard Book Sarah Plain and Tall The Hundred Dresses Holes (Adventure) Rules When You Reach Me Dear Mr. Henshaw Mr. Popper s Penguins 26 Fairmont Avenue Ginger Pye Because of Winn Dixie Tale of Despereaux Poppy Dead End in Norvelt Island of the Blue Dolphins Bridge to Terabithia The Whipping Boy From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Missing May Hugo Cabret Shiloh Maniac Magee Number the Stars
Fable/Folktale/Fairytale Anthology The Ugly Princess Squids Will Be Squids Princess Furball Stupid Fairytales The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Stupid Tales Paul Bunyan Historical Fiction I Survived (Series) Prisoner B- 3087 (Difficult) Daniel at the Siege of Boston Weasel Inside Out and Back Again Snow Treasure Horse Diaries Series Cracker Dog Tags Series Woodsrunner Blazing West: The Journal of Augustus Pelletier, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 Bull Run Little House in the Big Woods (Series) Adventure The Genius Files Hatchet *Magic Tree House Series Mummies in the Morning Pirates Past Noon Wild Life Series of Unfortunate Events Everest Stranded Babysitters Club (Non Graphic Novels) 39 Clues Series Storm Runners Series Captain Underpants Series The Copernicus Legacy Beast Quest Mountain Dog Whatever After Series The Candymakers On the Run Series Some books fall into multiple genre categories. If it is a graphic novel, it should go in the graphic novel category. If it has magic, it should go in the fantasy category.